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NEUKTIE FASTENER.

No. 350,672. Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

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JAMES FRENCH, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

NECKTlE-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,672, dated October 12, 1886.

Application filed July 26, 1886. Serial No. 209,115. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES FRENCH, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Necktie-Fastener, of which the following is a full, clear, and ex act description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 shows the inner surface of a neck tie having my new fastener applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 8 is a front view of the central fold of the bow of the tie, and Fig. 4 is a plan View of the blank before it is bent to form the fastener.

This invention consists, principally, of a necktie-fastener formed with an opening or passage for a portion of the tie, so that the fastening of this portion of the tie at the same time secures the fastener in place, thus avoiding stitching or otherwise fastening the fastener separately.

The invention also consists of the special construction of the fastener, and of its combi nation in the tie, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Thefastener A is formed with an opening, B, for the passage through the fastener of the strip 0 of the tie. The main portion D of the tie may be of the usual or of any approved form. After said main part D is formed the strip 0 is passed through the opening B and then applied to the tie, and its ends secured together and to the main body of the tie by 35 stitching at d, so that the fastener adjusts it self and needs no separate or independent fastening.

The fastener is by preference made of a skeleton blank, F, formed with the D-shaped central frame, f, the two parallel prongs f f to straddle the collar-button, and the two opposite parallel prongs f f. The blank is bent in the center of the D-shaped frame f, so

that the prongsf andf" project upward, as 

